September 5, 2018
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, August 30, 2018, members of the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) Veterans Affairs Council discovered illegal surveillance conducted by a member of the management team during negotiations at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), in Atlanta, Georgia. The illegal surveillance—conducted through a mobile phone…
June 22, 2018
Friday, June 22, 2018 Washington, D.C. – This week, the National Federations of Federal Employees (NFFE) joined a coalition of labor organizations representing hundreds of thousands of federal employees in expressing their concerns about potential punitive actions against federal labor relations (LR) professionals. In a letter to Special Counsel Henry Kerner, NFFE and others advised…
June 13, 2018
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Washington, D.C. – Today, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), representing 110,000 federal employees across the country, joined 12 other unions in suing President Trump and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in response to three executive orders issued by President Trump on May 25, 2018. In the…
June 13, 2018
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Washington, D.C. – Today, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), representing 110,000 federal employees across the country, joined 12 other unions in suing President Trump and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in response to three executive orders issued by President Trump on May 25, 2018. In the suit,…
May 27, 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Cory Bythrow, Communications Director Phone: (202) 216-4458 Washington, D.C. – With furloughs underway for over 650,000 Department of Defense (DoD) workers, serious questions have been raised about the potential for yet another round of temporary forced layoffs in fiscal year 2014. A major point of contention has developed over DoD”s initial…
May 25, 2018
Friday, May 25, 2018 Washington, D.C. – Today, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), representing over 100,000 federal workers, expressed outrage after President trump signs three Executive Orders, all of which aim to decimate the principles of an apolitical federal civil service. Together, the practical application of the executive orders creates a culture…
May 17, 2018
Thursday, May 17, 2018 Washington, D.C. – Today, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), a union representing 110,000 federal employees across the country, reacts to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) misleading report on official time usage for FY16 that was issued today. The union took exception to the report – and OPM’s…
May 15, 2018
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Washington, D.C. – Today, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) expressed outrage at a bill scheduled for a vote this week in the U.S. House that, if passed, would allow for the privatization of veterans’ care and services to private providers inexperienced at treating veterans. In addition, the bill…
March 29, 2018
Thursday, March 29, 2018 Washington, D.C. — Today, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) reacts to President Trump’s decision to fire Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Secretary David Shulkin, a known opponent of the effort to privatize health and medical services at the VA. “Dr. Shulkin, as an experienced medical practitioner who governed the…
February 28, 2018
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Washington, D.C. — Today, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) celebrated a victory against an effort to privatize the nation’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) system. The effort, led by several major airlines, proposed to remove the ATC system from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to a private entity largely controlled…
